4/8: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• The upside of anger
• Coach Carter

Books:

• Saving the world / Julia Alvarez —takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day. Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to health and prosperity in developing countries. He wants her to go with him, but she demurs. She must finish her newest novel.
• Gone / Jonathan Kellerman —The incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold. It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.
• Lost / Michael Robotham —On a cold London night, Detective Ruiz is fished out of the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory of the circumstances surrounding the shooting. In his pocket is a photograph of Mickey Carlyle, a seven-year-old girl kidnapped three years before and presumed dead.
• The gift of techaya : Beyond the Tenfeather / Stephen Gese —Third in the series by this Seldovian author
• Beaches / Lena Lencek —Color photographs of beaches around the world accompanied by selections from literary, scientific and historical sources.
• A good life : newspapering and other adventures / Benjamin C. Bradlee —This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post.
• Living the country life / Better Homes and Gardens
• The legacy : continuing traditions of Canadian northwest coast Indian art / Peter L. Macnair
• Architectural details and measured drawings of houses of the twenties /William A. Radford —Excellent reproduction of now-rare book provides details for frame houses, houses of brick, brick veneer, stucco, etc., as well as plans for barns, silos, ice houses, and other farm structures. Also includes plans for such interior features as built-in buffets and sideboards, kitchen cabinets, wardrobes, window seats, breakfast nooks, fireplaces with decorative mantels, and bookcases for the living room and library.
• Alaska's parklands, the complete guide / Nancy Simmerman —
• The dishonorable Dr. Cook : debunking the notorious MountMcKinley hoax / Bradford Washburn —The captivating story of Dr. Frederick Cook and his famous discredited claim to have been the first atop Mount McKinley.